Dear all,

We know that the cost of translation is high, and it is the reason why the project is not able to provide a translation service. This is the cost and the risk of bibliodiversity. We should try to find specific money for this task. Otherwise, we will exclude a lot of people.

In France, there is no translation fundings for open access publishing, whereas there are translation fundings for business publishing. I know only one example of success, publishing two versions of the same book, likely with proper fundings dedicated to the task : http://net-lang.net/lang_en

They provide the list of their funders :

- https://www.idrc.ca/EN

- http://unilat.org/

- https://www.francophonie.org/

- http://en.unesco.org/

- http://www.maaya.org/?lang=en : Maaya — the World Network for Linguistic Diversity

I do not know the details, and they should be asked to Hervé Le Crosnier (University of Caen) and founder of C&F Editions http://cfeditions.com/public/

There would be an alternative by trying to crowdsource the translation. But we need a task force for that and a strong involvment of a community. In France, again, we have a model for that : https://framablog.org/ They translate texts into French that the consider important for free culture, open source, and so on. They have a tremendous know how and they could provide feedback. But, again, they won't provide the people to do the translation, and their skills are to translate into French, not into English.

Best regards,
Marin

Le 09/08/2017 à 13:57, Ernesto Priego a écrit :

Hi Alex,

I know you addressed the email to Domenico but I wanted to chip in if it's OK. I couldn't agree more this is the best, if not the only venue to have a discussion about this.

You raise a very important point which indeed as you say reflects structural conditions.

>>That said, I am concerned about one aspect of the CFP, mainly that the cost of the translation into the "lingua franca" is displaced unto the writers.

I'd like to add some follow-up questions here if I may:

Could this restriction/condition (the onus of translation into English being on writers requiring it) have to do with

 a) the publisher not providing this service as part of any publishing deal with the editors and/or

b) the publisher or editors not having (nrt means of achieving) funding that could be given to any submissions accepted that might require translation?

Do we know of any scholarly publishers or scholarly editions in the humanities or social sciences who have announced they will pay for translations into English of any submissions?

If funding could be provided to offer this service to authors who require it it would make this collection completely pioneering. Whose responsibility would it be to source that funding, do we already know of potential organisations who could provide that funding?

All the best,

Ernesto

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On 9 August 2017 at 16:28, Alex Gil <colibri.alex@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Domenico,

I'm very happy that this project is moving forward. This is indeed a great opportunity to highlight projects in the periphery, and generate fantastic debates. I will help the team personally reach individuals around the world in our networks to make sure they share with their own networks to open opportunities for new and old voices.

That said, I am concerned about one aspect of the CFP, mainly that the cost of the translation into the "lingua franca" is displaced unto the writers. When we consider that some of the writers who would be excluded traditionally from publication are precisely the ones who are less likely to achieve translation, this becomes a fundamental structural problem. That problem is exacerbated by the fact that the CFP is trying to be critical of anglo-exclusion. We take with the left hand what we give with the right.

Perhaps we can discuss among ourselves and publicly in this venue what we can do to mitigate. I think this is the best venue (perhaps the only one) to have this conversation.

All best,

a.

 

 

On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 7:28 PM, Domenico Fiormonte <domenico.fiormonte@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear GO::DH friends,

we've just launched a call for contributions that we think it would be of particular interest for the Global DH community:

http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/cfps/cfp_2017_global_digital_humanities.html

We would be very grateful if you could circulate it in your local/regional/linguistic community. Our aim with this project it is not only to make visible non-Anglophone or non-Western research, but to give a voice to alternative views of DH. I guess "DH Diversity" would have been a proper subtitle!

We look forward to receiving your inputs, comments, and advice. We're also lookinkg for volunteers who could help us to translate the call in other languages (i.e. Chinese, Arabic, and Russian).

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any specific question regarding the call and the project as a whole.

All the best

 

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